Total bridges
115
Public highway bridges in Coahoma County
County profile · official public datasets
115 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.5% rated Good, 52.2% Fair, 4.3% Poor.
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Coahoma County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Coahoma County ranks #37 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.3%). Coahoma County, Mississippi contains 115 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.5% are rated “Good,” 52.2% “Fair,” and 4.3% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.
Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.
Total bridges
115
Public highway bridges in Coahoma County
Good condition
43.5%
50 of 115 rated 7-9
Fair condition
52.2%
60 of 115 rated 5-6
Poor condition
4.3%
5 of 115 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#37 of 82
Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Share of 115 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
That is 11.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,102 crossings a day against 1,094 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.
Computed over the 115 of 115 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
28 of the 115 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 43.5% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.
Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
SECOND STREET over SUNFLOWER RIVER, built 1936, carries 11,000 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 20,510 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
115 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
1930–1939
2 bridges
1950–1959
3 bridges
1960–1969
10 bridges
1970–1979
32 bridges
1980–1989
27 bridges
1990–1999
19 bridges
2000–2009
18 bridges
2010–2019
3 bridges
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 32 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1984) matches the Mississippi average (1986).
The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Coahoma County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.3% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone County | 125 | 48% | 46.4% | 5.6% | 1988 |
| George County | 115 | 76.5% | 22.6% | 0.9% | 1989 |
| Coahoma County (this page) | 115 | 43.5% | 52.2% | 4.3% | 1984 |
| Quitman County | 106 | 55.7% | 36.8% | 7.5% | 1978 |
| Hancock County | 104 | 62.5% | 30.8% | 6.7% | 1989 |
| Benton County | 103 | 70.9% | 21.4% | 7.8% | 1993 |
Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Coahoma County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Coahoma County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Nearest county inventories outside MS (115 bridges here).
Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1984 here).
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Over: YAZOO PASS
SEC 35 T30N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: DRAINAGE DITCH
SEC 10 T28N R 3W, Coahoma, MS
Over: BLACK BAYOU
3.0 MI E US 61, Coahoma, MS
Over: HARRIS BAYOU
0.6 MI E SR 1, Coahoma, MS
Over: RICHIES BAYOU
2.4 MI N SR 322, Coahoma, MS
Over: SEIVER LAKE DRAIN. DITCH
SEC 14 T26N R 4W, Coahoma, MS
Over: SR 6
US 61 OVER SR 6, Coahoma, MS
Over: SR 6
US 61 OVER SR 6, Coahoma, MS
Over: STREAM
3.8 MI E US 49, Coahoma, MS
Over: US 49
US 61 OVER US 49, Coahoma, MS
Over: HOPSON BAYOU
SEC 8 T26N R 3W, Coahoma, MS
Over: SR 161
8.6 MI N BOLIVAR CL, Coahoma, MS
Over: STREAM
1.3 MI E US 49, Coahoma, MS
Over: STREAM
3.4 MI E US 49, Coahoma, MS
Over: RELIEF OPENING
0.8 MI E MISS/ARK ST LINE, Coahoma, MS
Over: RELIEF OPENING
0.3 MI E MISS/ARK ST LINE, Coahoma, MS
Over: MS DELTA RR/COUNTY RDS
0.1 MI S US 49, Coahoma, MS
Over: SUNFLOWER RIVER
SEC 14 T27N R 4W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: US 61
1.5 MI N SR 6, Coahoma, MS
Over: SUNFLOWER RIVER
SEC 23 T27N R 4W, Coahoma, MS
Over: SUNFLOWER RIVER
8.3 MI N BOLIVAR CL, Coahoma, MS
Over: HOPSON BAYOU
5.6 MI N TALLAHATCHIE CL, Coahoma, MS
Over: HARRIS BAYOU
SEC 32 T26N R 4W, Coahoma, MS
Over: LITTLE SUNFLOWER RIVER
SEC 15 T27N R 4W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: YAZOO PASS
4.0 MI S TUNICA CL, Coahoma, MS
Over: SUNFLOWER RIVER
SEC 23 T27N R 4W, Coahoma, MS
Over: MS DELTA RR/COUNTY RDS
0.1 MI S US 49, Coahoma, MS
Over: HOPSON BAYOU
SEC 7 T25N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: HOPSON BAYOU
SEC 10 T25N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: DRAINAGE DITCH
SEC 19 T25N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: HOME CYPRESS BAYOU
SEC 27 T25N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: SUNFLOWER RIVER
SEC 2 T25N R 4W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: SUNFLOWER RIVER
SEC 3 T25N R 4W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: HOPSON BAYOU
SEC 22 T26N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: HARRIS BAYOU
SEC 7 T26N R 4W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: HARRIS BAYOU
SEC 31 T26N R 4W, Coahoma, MS
Over: HARRIS BAYOU
SEC 1 T26N R 5W, Coahoma, MS
Over: CASSIDY BAYOU(BIG CREEK)
SEC 36 T27N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: HARRIS BAYOU
SEC 27 T27N R 5W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: BLACK CREEK BAYOU
SEC 5 T28N R 3W, Coahoma, MS
Over: DRY BAYOU
SEC 6 T28N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: BLACK LAKE BAYOU
SEC 21 T28N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: BLACK LAKE DRAINAGE
SEC 31 T28N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: MILL CREEK
SEC 1 T28N R 4W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: RICHIES BAYOU
SEC 27 T28N R 5W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: BLACK BAYOU
SEC 22 T29N R 3W, Coahoma, MS
Over: YAZOO PASS
4.0 MI S TUNICA CL, Coahoma, MS
Over: DRAINAGE DITCH
SEC 28 T28N R 2W, Coahoma, MS
Over: HOPSON BAYOU
SEC 27 T26N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Over: LAKE BAYOU
SEC 16 T27N R 3W B, Coahoma, MS
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.